Are there 4 moves that cover everything?

For example, if I have a smeargle and want it to hit every Pokemon with normal effectiveness or super effectiveness, is that possible? Also if so what are the 4 types of moves that would cover this? Also what is the best 4 (meaning that they have the least normal effectiveness)? Thanks!

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http://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coverage<— doesn’t count abilities normally, cri

Yes, there are four moves that cover everything. In fact, you can have complete coverage with justtwo:

Ghost and Fighting.

If you think about it, Ghost covers all types at least normally effectively, except Normal and Dark (and Steel if you’re on Gen V or earlier). Fighting covers all of these moves super effectively. The only way for these moves to lose their coverage is if Game Freak makes a Normal/Ghost Pokemon.

If you would like to know thefourtypes that “have the least normal effectiveness,” they are:

Ghost, Fighting, Ice, and Ground.

Not only do these types hit all types at least normally effective, butthey hit super effectively on the vast majority of Pokemon:588/774, to be exact.

I hope this answers your question.

Source

Ghost, Psychic, Grass, and FightingAlakazam is a good Pokemon for this since you can teach it shadowball, psychic, energy ball, and focus blast

Ghost / Fighting / Steel.Mega Lucario can do that.Source:http://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coveragePlug them in, I don’t know how to screenshot on a macbook.

It’s not possible.

Normal and Electric each only have one weakness. Together, Fighting and Ground cover 8 types, including those two. Fighting and Ground are also the only two types to cover 5 types each, and both of them cover Rock and Steel. This leaves 10 types left, two of which are Fairy and Ghost.

Fairy is only covered by Steel and Poison. Steel covers 3 types, one of which overlapping with Fighting and another overlapping with Fighting and Ground, meaning Steel would only add Fairy coverage. Poison would add Grass and Fairy coverage, bringing the total so far to 10 types.

With that it already seems impossible, but there’s more. Ghost is only weak to Ghost and Dark, both of which, only cover Ghost and Psychic. So Fighting, Ground, Poison, and Ghost or Dark would only cover 12 pure types.

Now I did look into Flying Press. Flying Press covers 5 types like other Fighting type moves, but instead of Rock and Steel, it covers Grass and Fighting. So with Flying Press and Earthquake, you would have 10 types. There are multiple types that cover 4 types by themselves, but none of them cover Fairy or Ghost. So even with Flying Press, it’s still impossible.